Swing Is Here

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Label
Reference Recordings
Release Date
July 8, 1996
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      AHLERT BASIE BERRY CAMPBELL
    • PERFORMER
      Etc., Dick Hyman
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 08, 1996
    • UPC
      030911107222
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RR-72
    • LABEL
      Reference Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Contemporary Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Jumbo: The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

      Composer: Richard Rodgers

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Peter Appleyard, Butch Miles

    2. I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music

      Composer: Dave Franklin

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Frank Wess, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Butch Miles

    3. When Lights Are Low

      Composer: Benny Carter

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Frank Wess, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Butch Miles

    4. The Jeep Is Jumpin'

      Composer: Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Frank Wess, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Butch Miles

    5. Swing Is Here

      Composer: Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Chu Berry

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Frank Wess, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Butch Miles

    6. Gold Diggers of 1935: With Plenty of Money and You

      Composer: Harry Warren

      Performer: Nancy Marano, Dick Hyman, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Peter Appleyard, Butch Miles

    7. How Am I to Know?

      Composer: Jack King

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Jay Leonhart, Butch Miles

    8. Dickie's Dream

      Composer: Count Basie, Lester Young

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Peter Appleyard, Butch Miles

    9. Of Thee I sing, Act II: Who cares?

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Peter Appleyard, Butch Miles

    10. I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)

      Composer: Fred E. Ahlert

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Frank Wess, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Butch Miles

    11. Taps Miller

      Composer: Count Basie, Sidney Keith Russell

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Frank Wess, Randy Sandke, Jay Leonhart, Peter Appleyard, Butch Miles

    12. On The Bumpy Road To Love

      Composer: Al Hoffman, Al Lewis, Murray Mencher

      Performer: Nancy Marano, Dick Hyman, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Peter Appleyard, Butch Miles

    13. Jive at Five

      Composer: Harry Sweets Edison

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Frank Wess, Randy Sandke, Ken Peplowski, Jay Leonhart, Peter Appleyard, Butch Miles

    14. Fine and Dandy

      Composer: Kay Swift, Paul James

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Jay Leonhart, Butch Miles

    15. If I Had You

      Composer: James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro

      Performer: Dick Hyman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jay Leonhart, Butch Miles


The follow-up to 1995's from the Age of Swing reunites many musicians from the first recording with exciting new soloists for an uncannily realistic evocation of the days of Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa. Players include Jay Leonhart (bass), Peter Appleyard (vibraphone), Nancy Marano (vocals), Butch Miles (drums), Ken Pizzarelli (guitar), Randy Sandke (trumpet), Frank Wess (sax) and Dick Hyman (piano). This album was recorded live to 2-track in stunning HDCD sound.